Took the weekend to think about the path forward and the team and I have come to a simple conclusion: We aren't ready to give up on Cardano. My post went viral and I had people from all chains and walks of life reaching out. My DMs were crazy. Most very positive. Some of it, madly inspiring. The main take away though was that people still believe in us, and Cardano. Huge thank you to everyone who reached out. We had multiple parties volunteer to front the 100k ADA for the direct treasury proposal. This is the Cardano I invested my life into. The Cardano of old, where people had each others backs and we were unified. I felt that again this weekend. This community is undeniable. Let's lock in our direction and find something we can all get excited about again. I ain't hear no bell 😤 Updated proposal dropping Soon™

A significant shift is happening in Cardano. ADA holders are no longer passive participants in someone else’s roadmap. They now have direct influence over the direction, funding priorities, and future of the protocol. The holders have spoken clearly in the recent budget cycle. They want progress. They want accountability. They want delivery tied to discipline. When capital comes from the treasury, it is entirely reasonable for ADA holders to ask hard questions, challenge poor execution, and expect spending to translate into measurable value for Cardano. That changes the incentive structure. As a result, we have already seen treasury spend fall. In my opinion, the value of that spend has increased. Less capital is being treated as automatic entitlement, and more attention is being placed on delivery, relevance, risk, and return to the ecosystem. I believe this will continue. As global competition around value output increases, proposals will need to become sharper. They will need to justify cost more clearly, explain the mechanism of value creation, and show why the treasury should fund them. The personal attacks, emotional outbursts, and increasingly strange behaviour we are seeing from some corners are a confirmation of that shift. When informal control starts to weaken, the reaction often becomes louder, less rational, and more personal. Until people accept that power and control is moving back towards ADA holders, those social outbursts will likely continue. That is what happens when influence moves away from closed circles and towards the people who carry the economic risk. I think this is extremely beneficial to Cardano. Healthy governance should apply pressure. It should force clarity. It should make capital allocation more difficult, more accountable, and more closely linked to outcomes. That is how a decentralized ecosystem matures beyond personalities, relationships, and legacy influence. The powerful thing is that absolutely anybody can contribute to that change. A holder, builder, stake pool operator, developer, researcher, business owner, or ordinary user can bring information into the system. They can question assumptions, expose weaknesses, improve proposals, challenge poor incentives, and help force positive change. That is where collective global intelligence starts to create real value. Different people bring different experiences. Some understand infrastructure. Some understand markets. Some understand governance, risk, compliance, enterprise adoption, product delivery, or community behaviour. When those perspectives are allowed to surface, the system becomes harder to control, but much stronger over time. Disappointment is not a weakness in governance. It is often the first sign that the system is beginning to correct itself. What matters is that frustration is being converted into action. Holders are voting, questioning, organising, analysing proposals, and pushing for a more serious and accountable ecosystem. The old model of quiet influence, unclear control, and decisions shaped away from the people who bear the economic risk is weakening every day. This is where Cardano becomes different. Its strength is the ownership structure, the incentives, the treasury system, and the fact that every ADA holder has the same fundamental rights within the system. No special class. No permission gate. No hidden entitlement. Cardano’s future will be shaped by the people who hold it, use it, build on it, and are prepared to defend its long term value. Exciting times.

ADA holders run things now. Power to the people.

Good ideas shouldn’t die. I’m building Quorum: an off-chain public record for Cardano treasury withdrawal ideas before they become on-chain proposals. Why does this need to exist? Over the last few weeks/months, I’ve seen the same pattern repeat: teams draft proposals in isolation, then show up asking for votes, funding, and support.

RIDING TO ZERO... BEAR MARKET EDITION

Chadano Citizens are coming. A limited collection of 1,500 CHAD NFTs acting as your identity and entry ticket into the upcoming gamified fee-distribution platform. Citizens give access. $CHAD becomes the strategic layer for boosts, multipliers, and seasonal positioning. Cardano native assets need better infrastructure, tooling, and dApps.

I just voted NO with 69.28 million ADA on the treasury withdrawal: Cardano at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026: Baseline ‘Platinum' Sponsorship Proposal On behalf of my loyal delegates. Rationale I know this proposal has already passed, but I wanted to still formally register my NO vote and share my rationale for transparency. Singapore is a great location, and I credit EMURGO for a zero profit, Platinum tier pass through structure that directly responds to community feedback. The proposal easily demonstrates clear benefits to Cardano by providing free tickets, dedicated stage time, and critical networking access directly to ecosystem builders. However, a 3.3 million ADA ask paired with an 85% upfront drawdown conflicts too deeply with my core fiscal principles. This is an exceptionally high amount for an event where, historically, I am unable to easily tie the spend back to clear value on Cardano in the form of KPIs. Ideally, I would prefer we focus on treasury replenishment initiatives, growing our treasury and on chain usage, before we have the luxury of spending out at events to join other blockchains that do have utility generating further on chain usage. Even though the community heavily favors this presence, as a DRep I must prioritize strict treasury discipline, and I cannot in good conscience support these specific financial parameters. As this has since passed, I would welcome EMURGO to demonstrate this proposal's value, and I look forward to seeing this during the event, especially across social media, which will in turn assist my position for future funding. Transaction adastat.net/transactions/da1…

TapTools is a great product; I use it daily. It’s such a shame, but I fully understand your situation. This low ADA price, without relief, and the low user activity are obviously not sustainable for most businesses operating on Cardano. I hope that changes soon.

Taptools shutting down is the Biggest L $ADA has taken, if they can’t survive who can. Multiple mints and one of the main tools on the entire chain. The founding entities need to take this as a very big wake up call, or dexhunter will be next and then there’s no point anymore.

Gra karciana, która wyszła PÓŁ ROKU TEMU ODPALA TURNIEJE NA 2k OSÓB I NIE MA ICH WIĘCEJ TYLKO DLATEGO, ŻE NIE BYŁO WIĘCEJ MIEJSCA XDD Wy nawet nie zdajecie sobie sprawy jakie to jest popierdolone. To jest dosłownie ewenement, no wysadza mi to banie. ŻADNA.INNA.GRA.W.HISTORII nie miała takiego startu, a jeszcze te liczby z eventu na event są coraz większe. To nie tak, że no był giga initial hype i teraz sobie umiera. TO TYLKO ROŚNIE. Autentycznie Riftbound jest obecnie największym sukcesem Riotu.

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Riftbound is the goat tcg purely because it's a constant conversation. Reacting, talking, feels like an actual 1v1. And for someone who loves to chat and make new friends, it genuienly doesn't get better. The worst TCGs are the my turn, your turn, silence zero interaction.

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I bought Ada in 2020 and all the way through the bull run, even after ATH. Bought NFTs, supported projects, rarely sold anything Cardano related to this day. I cashed out my life savings in 2023, during the last bear lows, and put most of it in to Cardano. I have worked to build in this ecosystem without a salary for 3 years now. I have put my own ADA up for payrolls to ensure our employees get paid. I have sacrificed everything to be here. I have always believed in Cardano. I have shown up every single day for the last 5 years. That’s why I won’t sit here quietly and watch it all burn down around me. That’s why I won’t sit around and watch the people who have lived comfortably, making none of the sacrifices I did, continue to strong arm governance because their payday is running out. Yet I see dReps and CEOs attacking the community for how they vote. Is this really what we signed up for? Governance was supposed to be our chance as a community to have a real voice and it’s being completely diminished by propaganda and bullies. Attacking people on the timeline because of how they voted is just pathetic and not the governance I signed up for I helped conceive. The system was finally showing signs of strength, pushing back against expenditures, forcing accountability from previous years, and ushering in a new era of Cardano, where the community fully decides. Unfortunately that is clearly not the reality. A few dReps hold all the power, most have their hands in or around the FEs. It’s ok. I am not as mad at the centralization of voting power. I’m mad because we aren’t being listened to. Asking for basic stuff to make an educated decision, or have fiscal clarity, is not FUD, it’s called being responsible. We should hold everyone equally accountable at this point. There should be no varying standards. And I mean this socially as well. I hope people really take a long look at where we are, how we got here, and what’s currently going on before they continue to vote. We have about half the NCL left, let’s make sure to use it extremely wisely. We can’t afford to miss. Happy Sunday!

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